But even reviewers that gave it a 10 and consider it as one of the best games ever (Videogamer.com) hated the Batmobile, it seems to be a consensus.
Batman: Arkham Knight - Review Thread
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After a quick search: they did the wiiu version of origins and the conversion to steamWorks for the PC version of city and asylum. So it could be that they just did the steamWorks part again. I do hope that whoever did origins for PC is back, that port was better than city and asylum PC.
Raitosaito
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Are all the changes stated in the review really enough to shakeup the formula.
Just like AssCreed I'm burnt out, even though the output of Arkham games are not at the same pace. Maybe it's just the way the combat is designed, or that the story beats seem to happen the same way, but I really hope it's not Arkham City 2.0. And everyone seems to agree that the batmobile is kind of lame.
Just like AssCreed I'm burnt out, even though the output of Arkham games are not at the same pace. Maybe it's just the way the combat is designed, or that the story beats seem to happen the same way, but I really hope it's not Arkham City 2.0. And everyone seems to agree that the batmobile is kind of lame.
As far as performance goes, Origins was definitely head and shoulders above City.
As long as I can manage a rock solid 30fps with gameworks enabled for the extra eye candy I'll be happy.
TheStruggler
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glad you do not a lot of people were a fan of it it seems, lol people forget about bruce waynes billionaire playboy side as well, I wouldnt mind that showing up either
Yeah, that makes sense, actually.
PHOENIXZERO
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I'm going to take a break from Witcher 2 when it comes out, I really should be playing W3 at this point but it took me way too long to get through the first game and I'm only at the start of chapter one in W2 anyway. Of course it wouldn't have been an issue had I played through the first two games after I bought them two years ago.
UnrealEck
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Do we know the PC version of Arkham Knight is a port of the console versions?
They definitely helped out (or did the full port), unless WB/Rocksteady are really nice.
The Arkham Knight app is part of the Iron Galaxy Studios Dev Comp package according to SteamDB.
wookieofdoom
Member
I think it will be okay to put the witcher aside for a week imho. It will give CD Projekt some time to put out patches
Yea they probably feel they could touch the 94-95 MC without it, a shame, but still great reviews, will buy.
City of Dis
Member
God damn that looks good. It reminds me a lot of the Samaritan Unreal Engine 3 demo. It's at the very least close to the visual prowess in it.
semiconscious
Member
the primary problem is that, to a large extent, the batmobile is just plain counter-intuitive. for anything other than battling other large vehicles, it's just completely superfluous: getting around quickly in these games has never been a problem...
truestatic
Member
Earlier in this thread someone was complaining about how long it took to glide around Origins. Knight is supposed to be quite a bit larger.
semiconscious
Member
i'll be very surprised if driving gets you anywhere all that much faster that gliding. not to mention, gliding'll always give you a better perspective on what's where...
Spring-Loaded
Member
It clearly goes faster than Batman glides and it can be used to launch him around. Even if you prefer gliding, it helps with that too. How is that not useful?
Sounds like it's 95% Batmobile, 5% collectathon
Golgo 13
The Man With The Golden Dong
I think if they didn't include it, people would've called out Knight for rehashing too much od what made Asylum and City great -- I can see why they wanted to include it, the idea of it is awesome, but in the space of a video game true to the character, it seems like it would almost always be too much or too little of the Batmobile. I can see the quotes from critics now, saying "The Batmobile is amazing, too bad they didn't involve it in more than just driving around the city and a few Riddler puzzles". And now that Rocksteady included it heavily, they're facing flack for that as well. It's almost a lose/lose for them.
I can say for certain that I'd rather them include an imperfect Batmobile than shoehorned in co-op or multiplayer -- that would've been much more disappointing to me.
Messofanego
Banned
I don't believe any developer cares about that kind of granularity in a Metacritic score, just that it's good.
It will defiantly take me more that a week to complete this game. I always get obsessed with getting all riddler trophies, riddles, joker teeth, security cameras etc. in these games. I especially love how the riddler trophies are often behind a puzzle instead of just being a collectible placed openly in the world. I don't care at all for the challenge maps though.
jediyoshi
Member
Depends on the setting and the distance. They're absolutely not comparable past a certain point though, you're not going to be traveling from island to island just gliding.
UnrealEck
Member
I don't know how you guys are concluding that from a tiny little compressed .gif animation.
You are joking, almost all of the riddler trophies consist of driving his tracks? no way.
MC do affects sells, it helps to get a high 9, low 9 is great but still common, high 9 is extremely rare, no game reached that on current gen excluding remasters.
Spring-Loaded
Member
You spend more time in the Batmobile than out of it based on what's been shown
You may want to reconsider playing this.
clutch.as.it.gets.
Member
And like expected the batmobile and making it the focus was a shitty decision. I havent palyed it but im pretty sure it will be the worst arkham game for me thanks to the batmobile.
Messofanego
Banned
Man I can't wait!!!!
:O
Golgo 13
The Man With The Golden Dong
This is absolutely false. Publishers regularly grant bonuses to developers based on Metacritic scores, and reviews have been shown over and over to impact game sales.
Trust me, many Publishers AND developers care about Metacritic, it's a huge part of the industry and will be for the foreseeable future, bad or good.
Spring-Loaded
Member
I heard they make you look at it in the model viewer every time you boot up the game.
I wish this game took place entirely in a new (but still compact, tight, focused, immersive) Arkham Asylum, even if it was exactly like the first game. A focused, tight predator sequence, followed by a completely separate fight sequence, then a Scarecrow nightmare sequence, then repeat until the game's over.
Kevin Shields
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I hear people saying shitty story. But I looked at all reviews on first page and it seems to be 50/50. Some say terrific story, others say its no good. So no consensus on story yet from what I've seen.
CosmicQueso
Member
I can say with all certainty that they certainly do care about that granularity.
You still sounds like you are trolling me, almost no regular Riddler puzzles? WTF!
I wont consider playing it because of no Riddler puzzles but that's a huge disappointment, didn't Rocksteady promise Riddler trophies are gonna be harder than ever? did they really mean a fucking racing track?!
truestatic
Member
I'm surprised. I thought you were more fond of City than Asylum.
Spring-Loaded
Member
There's no telling if it's decent considering the last two game's had bad stories, yet were written by Paul Dini who's work is normally great, and now this was written by a Crysis writer... It's up in the air.
ShutterMunster
Junior Member
Man I can't wait!!!!
Holy. Christ. I need this game in my veins right NOW! I've always wanted to replicate a scene like this, something we've seen Batman do across various mediums so many times.
Spring-Loaded
Member
Have you played Jak and Daxter 2? It's like that game's vehicle segments, but that's the entire game. Or maybe like a darker Twisted Metal 2.
The real ending is unlocked by doing all the Riddler stuff.
OK than you are trolling, that's not nice of you
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
He's not. You really do need to do all the Riddler stuff to get the deal ending.OK than you are trolling, that's not nice of you
Spring-Loaded
Member
OK than you are trolling, that's not nice of you
Look up some video of Jak 2. Even if the Batmobile isn't literally the entire game, it's almost the entire Riddler stuff (based on what was shown) and everything revolves around the Batmobile. You'll never be rid of it if that sounds unappealing to you, you're better off selling or giving away your copy.
STILLethal
Member
Can someone confirm:
-Are the predator challeges with the online scoreboard (on how good you did) back?
I loved those in AC, were challenging and felt good when you do well.
-Are the predator challeges with the online scoreboard (on how good you did) back?
I loved those in AC, were challenging and felt good when you do well.
Again there is still a full campaign and side missions, it's not like all i care about are the Riddler trophies so stop being so dramatic with "selling your game".
Circle Jerk
Member
Is the PSN preload still not available? It;s 50 fucking gigs off Sony servers, this is going to take some time. I'd like to be able to do that.
Messofanego
Banned
I'm talking about the focus on a 94-95 Metacritic score, as that's what I was replying to. Not 85 like with Obsidian and how publishers handled their bonuses. That's still a publisher concern, not as much importance with the developers. Which is still an awful practice that should be done away with, if it hasn't already.
Emperor_Uriel
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-Batmobile in general is crappy.
-100% Riddler trophies (200+) needed for true ending.
-Bad chase sequences.
-100% Riddler trophies (200+) needed for true ending.
-Bad chase sequences.